Some have asked why companies like AIG were not allowed to go bankrupt, rather than the government investing massive sums of taxpayer money to prop them up.

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I kind of like them, but I think that they're not enough; that's why I'm writing a book about this.

我有点喜欢他们但是我想他们的计划并不周全;,所以我正在写一本关于这个的书。

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The first step to insight is to ask questions like why do things fall down and not up?

起初的洞察力是问问题,为什么物体坠地而不是上升？

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So, why did I not like chemistry in high school?

为什么我高中不喜欢化学？

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So the environment has changed in a short time but evolution has not and there's a real mismatch now, which explains why you probably like Haagen-Dazs better than you like cauliflower.

所以食品环境在短时间内就能改变,但是进化不能 于是就有了错位,这也就能解释为什么哈根达斯,比菜花更受欢迎

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So, for the next few minutes, I will give you a sense of why it is like that Mike has not achieved that fluidity, even though his peripheral vision has been restored.

因此，我会用随后的几分钟，来帮助大家理解，迈克及时在恢复间接视力之后,仍为何实现这一流度，大家都知道。

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Here, too, gets a little ugly and this is why I tend not to like this construct, at least in C, but sometimes it's necessary or it's the simplest way to achieve this goal.

这里也有点难看的，这也是为什么我,不太喜欢这个结构，至少在C语言中，但是有时它是必须的,或者它是达到目标最简单的方法。

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These DPPs go back a long time but there began to be complaints about them because people said, well why is it, because I'm not an accredited investor, I can't get into real estate like these other people do?

PP由来已久,但现在人们开始抱怨,他们说,我不是可信投资者,为什么仅凭此门槛,而不让我像别人一样投资商业地产呢

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Why, then, should we not study the acquisition of a cognitive structure like language more or less as we study some complex bodily organ?

我们为什么不应当,像研究某些复杂身体器官那样,去或多或少地研究,像语言这样的认知结构的习得

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So, the radical idea here is you might not know what--why you do what you do and this is something we accept for things like visual perception.

由此引出的一个偏激的观点,你根本不知道自己为何要这么去做,这有点像我们获得视觉感知的过程。

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